Week 27

Week 27 in Chem was a bit frantic for us.  We didn't cover many new concepts that were much different than material we had already worked with.  We started the week doing an infographic regarding the nomenclature for compounds.  With whatever tools we wanted, we organized all the different rules for naming compounds that we know so far.  Also, we began a new system for blogging.  From now on we have blogging partners.  With these partners, we read, comment on, and "grade" each others blogs every week.  Once we covered these two tasks, we moved our class back into the classroom.  We started with a lab that took up two days.  In this lab, we combined calcium pebbles with hydrochloric acid in a flask.  This flask was connected to our trough system that fills the bell jar with any gas that's formed.  For this lab, we asked: What gas? How much gas? How does the flask feel? We concluded that it was H2 gas because of hydrogens diatomic structure, and came to make 0.258L of that gas.  We didn't get to finish discussing the lab the second day because we unfortunately ran out of time.  To finish off the week, Mr. Abud was out and we had a sub.  On that Friday we worked on chemquests that simply dealt with balancing equations and then moved onto the skill practice for it.  This week we didn't make very much progress in our studies, but it was an important week to be able to move on.